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| − | Douglas Fleming | + | '''Douglas Fleming Barbour''', a [[Canadian]] [[fan]], [[poet]] and [[academic]], is a professor of English at the University of Alberta. He contributed to ''[[Ash-Wing]]'' and ''[[Riverside Quarterly]]''. |
| − | His "Patterns of Meaning in the SF Novels of [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], [[Joanna Russ]] and [[Samuel R. Delany]], 1962-1972," in 1976 was the first Canadian doctoral dissertation in the field of SF. A study of Delany was spun off from this volume: ''Worlds Out of Words: The SF Novels of Samuel R. Delany'' (1979). | + | His "Patterns of Meaning in the SF Novels of [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], [[Joanna Russ]] and [[Samuel R. Delany]], 1962-1972," in 1976 was the first Canadian doctoral dissertation in the field of [[SF]]. A study of Delany was spun off from this volume: ''Worlds Out of Words: The SF Novels of Samuel R. Delany'' (1979). |
He also edited (with [[Phyllis Gotlieb]]) ''Tesseracts 2''/ (1987), one of the Tesseracts series of anthologies containing original Canadian stories. | He also edited (with [[Phyllis Gotlieb]]) ''Tesseracts 2''/ (1987), one of the Tesseracts series of anthologies containing original Canadian stories. | ||
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| + | [https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/douglas-barbour Entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia.] | ||
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Revision as of 10:55, 28 December 2020
(March 21, 1940 –)
Douglas Fleming Barbour, a Canadian fan, poet and academic, is a professor of English at the University of Alberta. He contributed to Ash-Wing and Riverside Quarterly.
His "Patterns of Meaning in the SF Novels of Ursula K. Le Guin, Joanna Russ and Samuel R. Delany, 1962-1972," in 1976 was the first Canadian doctoral dissertation in the field of SF. A study of Delany was spun off from this volume: Worlds Out of Words: The SF Novels of Samuel R. Delany (1979).
He also edited (with Phyllis Gotlieb) Tesseracts 2/ (1987), one of the Tesseracts series of anthologies containing original Canadian stories.
Entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia.
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